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Technical Support

The technical support group, together with the administrative staff, is the backbone of the department. We provide expertise for all technical matters. We issue material and lockers for students, provide support to the faculty for their teaching, and take care of all equipments at the Department. Need something? Don't know how to deal with a technical problem? Come see us!

Issue Room

Location: PH2, Room 114
Phone: 562 985-4853
E-mail: ttorres@csulb.edu, mmclaugh@csulb.edu

The Issue Room supports all of the department laboratories and computer labs:

  • Astronomy 100 lab, located in PH2-116
  • Physics 100A, located in PH2-102
  • Physics 100B, located in PH2-206
  • Physical Science 112, located in PH2-101
  • Physics 151, located in PH2-108
  • Physics 152, located in PH2-115
  • Physics 155, located in PH2-117.

The Electronics Shop is part of the Issue Room and therefore located in PH2-114.

Technical and Laboratory Support Personnel

Tony Torres
Mark Mc Laughlin
Student Assistants

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Locker Issue

Lockers are issued at the beginning of the fall semester and are good throughout the spring but must be vacated by June 1st. You can check out a locker anytime between September and May, but must vacated it by June 1. No Lockers are issued during the summer.

Locker fee is one dollar per year and to be paid at the Brotman Hall. You can apply for and pick up your locker in PH2-114 by following the instructions posted at the side of the service window. Lockers are issued with university lock; personal locks are not permitted and will be cut off if used. To apply for a locker, you need a valid student ID card.

Lockers must be vacated by June 1st! No personal locks.

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Physics Lecturers

The Physics Issue Room supports lecturers with lecture demonstrations.

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Physics Faculty and Staff

We handle test equipment and computers for the department. Visit the issue room for equipment availability and check out procedures.

Graph Paper Printable
Protractors Printable
Resistor Color Code Calculator

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Last update: 11/13/08

Colloquium:

Proximity Effect in Superconductor/Ferromagnet Hybrid Systems,

J. Gu, CSU Long Beach.

Monday, November 23, 2009, 11am, PH2-110.

TRIUMF cyclotron in Vancouvers: site of the muSR experiments.


Welcome to our two new faculty:

Prashanth Jaikumar

 Prashanth Jaikumar: New faculty member at the department of Physics & Astronomy

Dr. Jaikumar is a nuclear astrophysicist who graduated from SUNY at Stony Brooks. His interests are in high-density matter and its relation to astrophysical phenomena in neutron stars.

Yohannes Abate

Yohannes Abate: new faculty member of the department of Physics and Astronomy

Dr. Abate is a condensed matter experimentalist, who graduated from the University of Iowa. His interests are in near-field microscopy and spectroscopy imaging in metals and semiconductors, plasmonics in nanoparticles and the physics of metamaterials.


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